Posted on 04/24/2008 8:40:43 PM PDT by Rameumptom
Armed only with a screwdriver, a 95-year-old woman in a wheel chair kept a burglar from breaking into her home by repeatedly stabbing his hand.
It was 3 a.m. when a 95-year-old Bartlesville woman heard somebody break the glass on her front door and push the door open. When a hand came inside and tried to unlock the door, she stabbed it. Again and again.
She stabbed that hand many times over the next hour, say Bartlesville Police.
The woman would not leave the door for fear the man would break in while she was calling for help.
Eventually, the man gave up.
When police arrived, they found the bloody suspect passed out on the front porch with dozens of stab wounds to his lower arms and hands.
"What do you tell your friends in jail about where did you get those wounds, asks a neighbor, Gerri Lynn Grindle. "I don't know that he's going to tell anybody he got them from a little old lady confined to a wheel chair."
The elderly woman told a neighbor she was going to get the screw driver gold plated and put it on a pedestal to serve as a warning to anybody else who tried to break in.
The suspect, 46-Year-Old Robert Horsley, is in jail facing one count of first-degree burglary.
Just when your faith in America starts to wane a hero comes along to make you believe again.
Go Granny!!
I love stories with a happy ending.
If she was 20 years younger she may have given him a Harvey wallbanger.
She needs a gun and a cell phone in her wheel chair pocket though.
. . . and one count of first-class stupidity. Why do you stand there for an hour letting someone stab you in the hand over and over again until you pass out?
So if the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again while expecting a different result each time, it leaves me to wonder exactly how many times did he stick his hand through the window thinking "this time I wont get stabbed with a screwdriver".
That’s the woman I want answering the phone at 3 AM!!!
the dumba*s just kept trying...
is in jail facing one count of first-degree burglary.
He should be charged a separate count for each stab wound he had - that showed how many attempts he made...
"This time I won't get stabbed with a screwdriver. . . . HEY!!"
"OK, now THIS time I won't get stabbed with a screwdriver. . . . YEEE-OWWW!!!"
screw me ese??? nooooo ese SCREW YOU!!!!! lol
Now extend that out to an hour.
LMAO
“So if the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again while expecting a different result each time, it leaves me to wonder exactly how many times did he stick his hand through the window thinking “this time I wont get stabbed with a screwdriver”. “
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Was it Senator Harry Reid who was breaking in? HE is stoopid enough!
LOL!
Nice work, Grandma! I hope her neighbors take up a collection and get her a more efficient screwdriver (though she probably would decline it). Something tells me she’s handled worse situations than this middle-aged caulk-for-brains.
You just can’t make this stuff up.
Age and treachery will always overcome youth and skill.
Snicker, snicker.
Not a ping.
OK, DLR, I know it wasn’t a gun but.........Hurray for this woman. She deserves an honorary Armed Citizens Ping.
Best thought of the night.
The theater of the mind.....
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